Hi Neil,
> Well, I'm clueless about how to help with your issue.
> But congrats on the premiere/recording!
Thanks!
When the CD is released, I'll be sure to let everyone know where to buy their
obligatory 12-or-so copies. ;)
Cheers,
Kieren.
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Kieren MacMillan
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I write [and engrave] a lot of choral music.
>>
>> There's one big thing I want to do in Lilypond, and wanted to get some
>> opinions on the matter...
>>
>> In my choral music, there are often large sections of unison and two-part
>> writing, as well as four- and [complex] eight-part writing. That is to say,
>> often the music can be completely represented on a single staff, but usually
>> it needs two or three or four, and every once in a while it requires eight
>> (i.e., one staff per vocal part).
>>
>> In a perfect world, I would like to indicate [in the .ly code] where a Voice
>> *requires* its own Staff context, and then have Lilypond make the
>> Staff-generating [partcombine?] decisions automatically, in order to get the
>> best overall spacing. So (e.g.) if half-way through a system a unison
>> section would [need to] break into four staves, either Lilypond would
>> "back-quote" the unison music to fill the first half of the system, or
>> insert a break at that point and respace the section accordingly, so that
>> the "split" happens at the beginning of the new system. [I hope I've
>> adequately explained what I'm looking for.]
>>
>> Right now, I'm using a somewhat complex combination of \quoteDuring [drawing
>> from a "unison" variable] and manual breaks to accomplish this task. But I
>> was hoping there might be a way to get it automated, mostly or fully.
>>
>> Since it would impact horizontal as well as vertical spacing, I imagine that:
>>1. The logic/algorithm/code would have to be in an engraver, and maybe
>> even in C++, as opposed to in a Scheme function.
>>2. It might require multiple passes [like the old two-pass spacing macro].
>>3. What I'm asking for might not be possible at all.
>>
>> Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kieren.
>>
>> p.s. At the U.S. premiere (and CD recording) of my "Fantasy Variations" this
>> past weekend in Arizona, I got more compliments on the score/parts -- yay,
>> Lilypond!
>>
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